Poznámky
Break: an open four-wheeled carriage with bench seats facing each other, fashionable in the 1870s for excursions; here drawn by four horses. ↩
Dormi pure («Sleep on»): an Italian romance that Marie often sang (she calls it «ma romance», 050.0756); its composer is not established, and it is not a known opera aria. ↩
Gioia: Italian for «joy», a word of the song, and also the name of Amélie Gioia, once the Duke of Hamilton's mistress, whom Audiffret afterwards took up (13 June: «en prenant la femme qu'il avait abandonnée»), hence Marie's stress on it. ↩
Se il mio nome («If you would know my name»): Count Almaviva's serenade in Rossini's The Barber of Seville (1816). ↩
Written in Russian in the manuscript; French translation by the editor. ↩
Marie's French rendering of the title of the Russian folk song «Вниз по матушке по Волге» («Down Mother Volga»). ↩
Galula Dechiar, clerk to the attorney Desforges at Nice, nicknamed «Fiouloulou». Twelve days later Marie gives his being Jewish as hearsay («Galula est dit-on, un juif») and calls him «comme il faut et spirituel, même fin» (034/1875-06-19). ↩
Written in Russian in the manuscript; French translation by the editor. ↩